Daily Archives: 04/05/2017

In the decade since the release of An Inconvenient Truth, a lot has changed. Climate science has made major advances. Renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, has become cheaper than fossil fuel-based electricity in many parts of the world. Electric vehicles are more popular than ever.

Last week, the president signed an executive order to begin rolling back environmental protections and policies, including the Clean Power Plan, a cornerstone of our nation’s commitment to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions. These actions are a misguided step away from a sustainable, carbon-free future for ourselves and generations to come.

Today, with your support, we’re investing in the next generation of climate activists around the world through our Climate Reality Leadership Corps training program. These Climate Reality Leaders learn the practical tools they need to educate and inspire a new wave of curiosity, innovation, and climate action in their communities. My upcoming film, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, features the inspiring work of many of these Leaders and shows just how important everyday activists are to the fight for solutions to the climate crisis.

No matter how discouraging the president’s executive order may be, we must, we can, and we will solve the climate crisis. No one man or group can stop the escalating momentum we are experiencing in the fight to protect our planet.

With your help, we can truly make a difference and create a better tomorrow.

With gratitude and hope,

Al Gore
Founder and Chairman
The Climate Reality Project

Did you see former US Vice President Al Gore’s earlier message? Over 10 years after An Inconvenient Truth, he’s still enthusiastic and hopeful about creating a sustainable, economically sound future for our planet.

Practical climate solutions and pro-climate policies are being imagined, developed, and implemented every single day. But we must work together and fight hard to make sure the new administration understands that our future depends on making climate solutions a reality.

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What’s going on in Washington regarding the investigation into Trump’s Russia ties is unprecedented — and should be concerning for all Americans.

I shared my thoughts with the Miami Herald’s opinion page over the weekend. Here’s what I had to say:

The sense of comity and duty that characterizes the House Intelligence Committee, on which I was honored to serve during my time in Congress, crumbled this week after Chairman Devin Nunes took several harmful actions.

The news that he canceled this week’s hearings — preventing former acting attorney general Sally Yates from testifying in the Trump-Russia matter — makes it clear he can no longer impartially chair the committee.

Following testimony by FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Mike Rogers confirming they were looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, Nunes took an abrupt meeting with sources at the White House who informed him that Trump staffers may have had their communications incidentally collected. Instead of bringing this information to the ranking member and full committee, he brought it to the President alone before alerting other members.

Nunes is clearly still wearing the hat of Trump surrogate and transition team member, not chairman of one of the House’s most prestigious committees. Further, Trump now feels “vindicated” in his completely baseless claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower.

The cancellation of this week’s meetings is terrible for national security. Our adversaries will not take a break while Nunes and the White House get their stories straight. The committee’s current slate is long and urgent: North Korean nukes; radicalization efforts by ISIS; worldwide cyber threats.

The integrity of the committee and the agencies it funds is of utmost importance, but partisan politics has stopped its serious work.

It is time for an independent investigator to take over the inquiry of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign. And for the sake of national security, it is time for Chairman Nunes to go.

Thank you for standing with me as we fight, together, for answers and accountability in Congress.

Thanks to the women in this room and people all across the country, we worked really hard — and it’s now been more than three years since Congress passed the Affordable Care Act and I signed it into law. It’s been nearly a year since the Supreme Court upheld the law under the Constitution. And, by the way, six months ago, the American people went to the polls and decided to keep going in this direction. So the law is here to stay.

I’ll do everything in my power to make sure nothing like this happens again by holding the responsible parties accountable, by putting in place new checks and new safeguards, and going forward, by making sure that the law is applied as it should be — in a fair and impartial way.

They exemplified the very idea of citizenship — that with our God-given rights come responsibilities and obligations to ourselves and to others. They embodied that idea. That’s the way they died. That’s how we must remember them. And that’s how we must live.